![]() ![]() ![]() Second, it was recently brought to my attention that while Whedon posited a future cultural mishmash of US and Chinese cultures, the series and the movie have almost no Chinese or even Asian characters, EVEN AS EXTRAS.Īnd yet, I still found this a darn entertaining show. ![]() Further, the series and movie fails the Bechdel test–none of the women characters ever talk together about anything other than men. Instead, they go for cheap shots from both Mal and customers about hookers, which make it more akin to 50’s westerns than millenial sci-fi. Space prostitute? Really? It might have worked if he’d followed up on what’s stated in the show–Companions are celebrated and revered, almost worshipped. One, this is another example of how supposed feminist Joss Whedon maybe isn’t such a paragon. I’ll get my big problems out of the way first. space prostitute) Shepherd Book, a preacher with a murky past and another couple of guys. There are also a few passengers: Inara, a Companion (i.e. He has a crew of four: his right-hand woman, Zoe her husband, the pilot Wash mechanic Kaylee and hired muscle Jayne. Mal Reynolds was a rebel war veteran who used his spaceship to run dodgy business throughout the galaxy. The series, which ran for only 14 episodes, was a space opera western. My husband and I were fans of Firefly during its short-lived time on the air, and thought it would be fun to watch it again in one swell foop and read Sepinwall’s recaps. This years he’s doing Joss Whedon’s Firefly and The Wire Season 3. TV critic Alan Sepinwall, who blogs at Hitfix now, revisits TV shows on DVD during the summer. ![]()
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